Marguerite of Navarre Quotes on God
Marguerite of Navarre, also known as Marguerite of Angouleme, was a French Renaissance queen, poet, and religious philosopher, sister of Francis I of France and queen of Navarre, whose court at Nerac became one of the chief centers of French humanist and reform-minded thought in the first half of the sixteenth century. This page collects quotes attributed to Marguerite of Navarre on the topic of god, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Marguerite of Navarre:
“What we conceal from God we conceal in vain; what we reveal to God we have already begun to be free of.”
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Attributed to Marguerite of Navarre:
“The mirror of the sinful soul reflects what the proud soul refuses to see.”
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“No one ever perfectly loved God who did not perfectly love some of his creatures in this world.”
Second Day, Novel XIX (trans. W. K. Kelly) | Variant translation by Samuel Putnam in Marguerite of Navarre (1935), p. 53: Never shall a man attain to the perfect love of God who has not loved to perfection some creature in this world. -
“Variant translation by Samuel Putnam in Marguerite of Navarre (1935), p. 53: Never shall a man attain to the perfect love of God who has not loved to perfection some creature in this world.”
No one ever perfectly loved God who did not perfectly love some of his creatures in this world.